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time. That conversation took place previous to registration day. I don't know whether he was the author of that mottor not. On June 3rd, 1917, in Kruse's office Kruse said, I will not serve in the army. June 5th I was alled to the Bureau of Investigation. I talked to Kruse about Mr. Blum of Pittsburgh who was a member of the Young Peoples Socialist League. stated, that he, Blum, was one of the first to suffer the consequences of the war's intolerance that he had been arrested because of his connections or propaganda work regarding peace meetings, that assistance should be given him by collecting the defense fund, so he may be defended in court also his accomplices. I guess 10 or 12 men in Pittsburgh were arrested at the Socialist Headquarters as his accomplices. Kruse said that the Y. P. S. L. members should write to him (Blum) and cheer him up as much as possible. He gave me the address in the American Socialist. I lost a letter sent me by Kruse wherein he urged preservation of duplicate copies of all records. In substance the letter stated: that we were entering a critical period and Socialists in all countries at this time were being persecuted; that no doubt the Y. P. S. L. being the most radical branch of the movement would suffer the most, that therefore it was necessary as raids on the National Office had shown that the records of the League would be confiscated indiscriminately; that we should duplicate records of all our league members and keep their addressed in case the league should be destroyed by a raid or arresting the leaders. Others then should take up the work, organize the league and keep it going, especially after the war, and it was necessary for the girls to take a good part in this. I distributed approximately 500, "Refuse to Register" stickers on the Evening of June 4th all over the North Side, in the company of one Herman Basler. Basler said he had a desk at Kruse's office. I had a conversation with Basler about evading service.

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Mr. Fleming: Q What did Basler say?

Mr. Stedman: Objection.

Mr. Fleming: This was outside the presence.

Cross-Examination by Mr. Cunnea.

I did not register on June 5th, 1917, I became 21 years old May 7th, 1918. I enlisted in the navy on April 29th, 1918 prior to Registration Day as an apprentice seaman. I am what is known as an apprentice chief petty officer. It was the general activity of the Young Peoples Socialist League to help out in the distribution of leaflets, etc. I had done that before in 1915 and 1916. Kruse was not a delegate at the Convention of May 6th and 13th, 1917. In appointing the committee Kruse did not want anybody who was hasty but that he wanted those who had some sanity on the committee. Levish was a "red" urging that stickers be put up. He questioned Kruse's loyality with the Young Peoples Socialist League because he would not take that sort of action; he said that Kruse was yellow and would not go the route.

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Kruse refused to appoint a secret committee; he refused to me. And because of the fact that he wouldn't appoint the committee Y PSL members of the character of Arnold Schiller and Tom Levish, called him yellow and abused him. Kruse never claimed to be the author of the motto "hands that hold a gun shall never hold mine". Visitors were admitted to the Convention. Most of the members were barred from voting because only those that were in the draft age should vote. I did not vote. I was not of age. There was a big quarrel between Kruse and Levish. Levish brought the stickers to me, said he ordered them and paid for them with his money. I saw Arnold Schiller in the District Attorneys office last Saturday. The last time I was called to Chicago I saw him nearly every day for about ten days at the office of the District Attorney. Schiller and I compared notes as to what happened there in the presence of Mr. Milroy connected with the District Attorneys office. Somebody asked questions about this Convention in the presence of Schiller and myself. I was asked questions when I was away from Schiller. I signed a statement. I had a talk with Kruse about “Refuse to Register" stickers: The meeting called at Hull House was a meeting called to organize High School students to protest against military service in the school and military training in general. I didn't understand the case of Blum of Pittsburgh very well. The impression created was that he was arrested for anti-war activity. I don't known that he was arrested for matters growing out of a strike at the Westinghouse plant where some men were shot. I have no communication with the members of the Socialist Party or the Y. P. S. L. since I joined the nave. I talked with Kruse before I joined the navy. He said nothing against it. He said that it was my own business to do my

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duty as I understood and saw it. In the letters I received from Kruse said most of the members would be in the army; he told about the difficu of keeping the leagues together. I believe that was what he said. This was stated as one of the reasons for organizing emergency committees and possible have some young women on them.

Redirect Examination by Mr. Fleming.

I enlisted April 29, 1918. I saw a large number of witnesses in the Ds trict Attorney's office. Somebody spoke to me about the testimony of Arned Schiller in this case on my first visit, and some one spoke to me about the testimony that Arnold Schiller gave in this case. You, Mr. Fleming, spoke to me about my testimony in this case. My father has not spoken to me about it. It is not a fact that my father related to me a conversation that he hear in Fleiners Hall.

Mr. Fleming: Q Did your father not tell you that he had heard a convers tion in Fleiners Hall, the metting place of your league?

Mr. Fleming: I am trying to find out his attitude here, and the reason

for the change in certain statements.

Mr. Cunnea: I object to the statement of counsel.

Mr. Fleming: I withdraw the statement.

Mr. Cunnea: The damage is already done.

The Court: Gentlemen: You will disregard counsel's statement about his reason for witness changing his statement.

Mr. Fleming: Q Your father is a member of the Socialist Party, is he not The Witness: Yes.

(Objection by defendants counsel as incompetent, irrelevant and immsterial and not proper cross-examination; objection overruled; exception. Mr. Fleming: Q. Is your wife a member of the Y. P. S. L.?

(Objection by defendants counsel as incompetent, irrelevant and immateria and not proper cross-examination; objection overruled; exception.) The Witness: My wife is a member of the Y. P. S. L.?

I think Levish was arrested at Grant Park at a nfeeting held by the Peoples Counsel and Y. P. S. L.; helped to usher, take up the collection, did every thing possible to help the meeting.

Cross-Examination by Mr. Stedman.

To my knowledge there was nothing ever said about the stickers in the presence of Germer or Berger or Tucker or any of the defendants except Kruse. (Whereupon was tendered and received in evidence on behalf of the gov ernment Exhibit No. 55, being the following articles from the American Socialist under date of June 30, 1917: Advertisement from p. 2, col 2, entitled "Buy a Liberty Bond"; article p. 3, col. 3, entitled "The Price We Pay"; article from p. 4, foot of page, entitled, "The July Leafllet"; cartoon from p. 3, entitled "George III"; poem from p. 2, col. 3, entitled "Friends of Conscrip tion.")

Counsel object as to all defendants as incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant. court overruled and exception allowed.

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GOVT. EXHIBIT No. 55
American Socialist June 30 1917
Buy A Liberty Bond

Get a Real one-not the Banker's Kind. The Bonds the Banks are offering you are Slevery Bonds; they bind you to the chariot wheel of Morgan forever.

June Leaflet of the Socialist Party.

The Real Liberty Bonds.

Send 2 dimes for 200, 3 dimes for 300, 75 cts. for one thousand.

Everyone delivered to a neighbor means a Bond to Liberty and Future Peace.

The Socialist Party

803 West Madison Street.
Chicago, Ill.

The Price We Pay

The Champaign, Ill., Gazette, in its leading editorial of June 17, warns its aders against reading "The Price We Pay." It says, in black face, double aded type:

"Every loyal, flag-loving man and women in these two cities into whose ands this pamphlet falls should destroy it without waste of time in its ading."

The Gazette is afraid to trust its readers to read such literature. It warns em to burn it without perusal. It fears that, in a rush of brains to the head, ey might become Socialists.

This is the greatest possible testimony to the power of the pamphlet, whose ales are now nearing the million mark.

Send for a bundle of "The Price We Pay." Price, $1.50 a thousand, 20 cts. hundred. It has made more converts than any literature we have issued in months.

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(Whereupon there was offered and received in evidence as Government's Exhibit 56 the following articles from the American Socialist under date of June 7, 1917, a paragraph without heading from column 3 page 3; a cartoon entitled 66 Yesterday and To-day " on page 3; a paragraph without heading from column 4 page 3.

Friends of Conscription

J. P. Morgan.

And so you approve of the plan, J. P.,
The plan of conscripting our sons;
And so you would send them across the sea,
To tackle the murderous guns.

Cold steel against tender young flesh, J. P.,
Hard steel against tender young bones;
And you you approve of the plan, J. P.-
At so many per cent for your loans !

And how goes the battle to-day, J. P.?
How many thousands were slain?

How many blind eyes lifted up to the skies
In pitiful pleading and pain?

And how many curses of hate, J. P.,

And how many agonized groans?
And how many dollars were lent to-day,
At how many per cent for the loans?

And the war that comes after the war, J. P.,
Does it never loom up in your dreams?

For you know that each debt must be paid, J. P.,
Though maturity far away seems.

But what is our life or our death, J. P.,

And what are our tears and our moans,

The grief-stricken mother, the life without light,
As compared with a great banker's loans?

LYDIA M. D. O'NEIL

he July Leaflet "Why You Should Fight," by Irwin Tucker, is now ready. want a man or woman, boy or girl, in every precinct of every county to disute these to Every Voter. Whether a party member or not. Wrap Your me Around A Dime, Send It In, and get 100 copies. Send two dimes, get › hundred. Send Seventy-five cents and get One Thousand. Be a Lightrer! Address The National Office, Socialist Party, 803 W. Madison St., cago, Ill.

GOVT EX. No. 56

American Socialist July 6

'ill you please advise the public in one of your editorials why it is that government permits the sons of wealthy men to get commissions in the ious reserve corps, such as naval, aviation, etc., so that they will be kept his country; while the poor will be sent abroad?" asks a reader. Because s is a rich man's war but a poor man's fight.

pen gambling houses, immoral resorts and illegal sales of liquor are only e of the temptations offered naval recruits stationed at Newport, R. I., the st fashionable and exclusive watering place for the idle rich in America. › vices of the rich are being visited upon the poor forced into uniform.

(Thereupon there was offered and received in evidence as Government's Exhibit 57 article from the American Socialist entitled "Organiion Leaflets Popular" and "Buy a Liberty Bond" issue of July 21, 1917. 1 the same is in words and figures as follows, to wit:) over the objection of insel for the defendants, to which an exception was allowed.